The Cinematographe.

Hastings Standard, Issue 506, 20 December 1897, Page 2

The Cinematographe.

TO VISIT HASTINGS

lieferingto the Cinematographe Lumiere, which opens in Hastings on Tuesday evening, the Otago Daily Times says : The lapse of years which have rolled by since Mr Wybert Reeve was last in Dunedin has not effaced from the public mind a recollection of the excellent performances which he used to give in comedy productions, and he received a very cordial welcome last evening at the Princess Theatre, where he appeared to introduce the Cinematographe Lumiere to this city. At the outset, he said that Lumiere Brothers were the inventors of the cinematographes, and while he would not saythat the other cinematographes which had been and stiil were in New Zealand were better or worse than this one, he asserted that they were simply imitations that were most unfair to the inventors. In all 85 pictures were thrown upon the canvas in the course of the evening's entertainment —an admirably assorted collection, — and severalof these wererepeatedincompliance with the strong desire for a repetition that was implied in the warm plaudits with which they were received. One feature about this cinematographe that could not fail to be appreciated was the steadiness with which the pictures were exhibited, and their freedom from that shimmering which has been noticed to be a defect in previous exhibitions of this kind. Jubilee pictures and Royal pageants, which formed one section of the exhibition, appears now to be at a discount, and with the exception of the strikingly realistic representation of the Czar's entry into Paris, which was redemandea, and an interesting view of the princes and foreign ambassadors in the Jubilee procession—this comprising 2000 films and being, it is claimed, the largest kinematographic picture on record—they did not " catch on" to the house nearly as well as some of the absolutely new views which Mr Beeve haa with him.